Robert Haley Asher was born 28 March 1868, to Josephus Marion Asher, who was the first commercial nurseryman in the San Diego area, providing buyers with fruit trees, shrubs, & vines from his Fruit Vale ranch in Paradise Valley, National City. Robert Asher settled on Palomar Mountain in 1903, & ultimately had 160 acres, living in the Pauma Creek / State Park area. Robert Asher also lived off Palomar Mountain part of the year working as a nurseryman. On Palomar, Asher took & sold photographs of summer campers, sold postcards of his photos, trapped animals for pelts, collected & sold wild plants, picked apples, & worked odd jobs. Asher moved off Palomar Mountain in 1946 to his sister Mrs. Josephine A. Vacher’s place on Fuerte Drive in El Cajon & continued to visit Palomar Mountain until 1951. Asher passed away on 25 April 1953.

These pages are from the Robert Haley Asher papers. Asher’s Plant Collecting Stories pages are undated, & seem to be circa 1914. Pages are duplicated, with each page enhanced to improve readability.